Introduced in Margaret Frazer's Edgar Award–nominated Dame Frevisse mystery The Servant's Tale, player Joliffe has taken up his own investigations, in the company of a troupe of traveling ...(Read More)

After murderer Isaac Handel is released from a high-security mental health ward, the staff realizes that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm amongst the ward's patients. ...(Read More)

A struggling artist named Ellen has been coping with an ex-lover, his psychiatrist, and an ex-husband—not to mention depression—in this 1979 novel by artist and musician Elaine Kraf. Then Ellen ...(Read More)

It is the turn of the 20th century on the island of Mauritius, in this novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Interrogation. Young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his ...(Read More)

Steam is rising over Ankh-Morpork, in Terry Pratchett's 40th (and penultimate) Discworld novel. Young Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule, has produced a great clanging monster ...(Read More)

In the fictional 18th-century city of Airenchester, England, the body of Thaddeus Grainger's rival turns up stabbed to death just hours after their inconclusive duel, in this novel by New ...(Read More)